Melody Smith - Fake Profile?

I undid merges, and cleaned things up as made sense. Please check to see if all is well; if not, message me with needed changes.

I also undeleted the profiles you had deleted; you were just trying to fix things, of course, but please don't delete profiles that other people are managing. It makes it impossible to see what's going on (and it isn't ok anyway, in the shared tree),

The problem, of course, is the Smith is a very common name, and there were a great many duplicate names.

I think that your branch is untangled now, though. If you like I can add curator 's notes to keep the profiles safer.

Thanks Anne.

I thought I was removing those profiles from my tree. I didn't twig that I was deleting them from the shared tree. Apologies to the world for that. It seems to me a serious flaw in Geni that there isn't a really obvious button to say "no, this profile does not belong here"

I'd appreciate you adding a curator's note. It was really annoying that some other curator just sailed through tacking a collection of Smith's on to the profiles I manage with absolutely no verification.

The Geni software warns us all when there are dates that are too far out of line, or it we are trying to merge a parent and child, and the like, and it will also tell us if we are looking at profiles from trees that are completely unconnected because one isn't connected to the World Tree, but none of those warnings would have been applicable here. The similarities were very great.

And the software can't possibly warn about everything. It would become meaningless.

Sometimes you can't see that things aren't jiving till way into the process, and sometimes things never do look out of kilter. I regularly find myself merging and I merging.

So it is daily life, on the collaborative tree. And we think all is well now, so yay!